A taste of Swedish Easter

For some reason that I've never quite understood, all the kids dress up like witches (happy, colorful witches, not green and black, scary witches like at halloween) during Easter. (I'll have to do more research on why). It was fun dressing the kids up and seeing them get all excited. Our apartment complex has a little gathering each year with hot dogs and games. In the morning, we had our own little easter egg hunt in our little yard and then headed over to the festivities. The kids have had A LOT of candy today. They get to eat it tomorrow and Monday as well, then we've decided all the extra candy, we couldn't eat, we'll put back in the easter eggs, hide them again in our yard and have the bunnies come and find them and let them have the rest. After that, all the kids are committed to going the rest of the year without candy. (For some reason, they think it'll be fun). If they can go all year, they get a surprise! That goes for mommy and daddy too :)! HAPPY EASTER everyone!

This is how it went down....

(note: Sofia says, "Vem's walking on my bridge?!" Vem=Who in Swedish. Sofia's fluent in Swenglish)

Our crazy ninja family!!!

A day at the lake..

...the frozen lake! It was a gorgeous day today, so we decided to head out and spend the day on the local frozen lake. We headed out equipped with sandwiches, apples, muffins and hot herbal tea! The kids loved every minute of it and although it was still freezing (literally), it didn't seem too cold since there was no wind and the sun was hitting us directly the whole time.

Emmy loved riding the Snow Racer and everyone loved being able to hold her on it :)

Cousin Christoffer (10yrs) pulled the kids running all over the ice.

Cousin Alexander teaching Sofia how to cross-country ski.

Playing with the cousins.

Samuel's turn to try.

The whole gang (almost)

Amazing blue sky.

At the end of the day, the men had to prove their manlihood...their sons quickly wanted to follow suit! (remember it was 32F out there!) It didn't last long.

Hairdos and Sleeping

Cool dude!

This girl's got attitude!

It's always a surprise when we go in to see how our kids have ended up falling asleep.

Random

Emmy loves standing. She's starting to walk holding onto furniture!

Our budding photographer.

We have had a crazy-snow winter this year! It's been awesome! But, now we're ready for spring!

Where's the coin?

One of our favorite games it trying to guess what hand the coin is in. The kids LOVE it!